subs. (old).—A bailiff; a constable. Also NABMAN.

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  1780.  R. TOMLINSON, A Slang Pastoral, st. x.

        Will no blood-hunting foot-pad, that hears me complain,
Stop the whine of that NABBING-CULL, constable Payne?

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  1816.  TERRY, Guy Mannering, ii. 3. Old Donton has sent the NABMAN after him at last.

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